Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
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But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.
Psalms
PoetryIf brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
Deuteronomy
LawWith thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.
Judges
HistoryThey sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaThe burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukAnd whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
Matthew
GospelsHell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
Job
WisdomBut the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjath-jearim to the place which David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistoryYe are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesNow go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahI will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesThe hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsPeace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
Psalms
PoetryBless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.
2 Kings
HistoryThe arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
Job
WisdomAnd the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king's face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)
Esther
HistoryThe sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bare: (but his concubine the Aramitess bare Machir the father of Gilead:
1 Chronicles
HistoryThus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelLong time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands.